Joseph edmondson



UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH EDMONDSON, OF SALFORD, AND CALEB HAWORTI-I, OF MARSDEN, NEAR BURNLEY, ENGLAND, EXECUTORS OF THOMAS EDMONDSON, DECEASED, LATE OF SALFORD,

ENGLAND.

CASE FOR HOLDING RAILWAY AND OTHER TICKETS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 10,941, dated May 16, 1854.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, JOSEPH EDMoNDsoN, of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, England, ticket printer, and CALEB HAWORTH, of Marsden, near Burnley, in the said county, conveyancer, executors and legal representatives of THOMAS EDMoNDsoN, deceased, late of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, England, printer and inventor of certain Improvements in Cases for Holding Railway and other Tickets, do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a section through the improved case for containing railway or other tickets, before they are issued.

In these views t, n, and w are three rows of tubes into which the tickets are placed in the manner indicated by the blue lines in Fig. 2. Each tube is formed of the back plate t', partitions t2, front plate t3, and bottom plate t4. These latter are left somewhat apartat the angle to allow the ticket clerk to draw the lowest ticket out of the tube when required. In Fig. 2 the lowest tickets are shown partly out of the t-ubes. The boards and w', are made to contain half tickets as it maysometimes be requisite to cut a ticket in two for a child. The boards are hinged to the back plates and are raised up when it is necessary to put a fresh supply of tickets into the tubes. The swivel boards 3/ are furnished at y, with a piece of slate for the clerk to enter the number of the last ticket upon. The back of the boards y, is covered with paper for making any memorandum upon. The length of the tubes t, n, and fw, and the number of them must be regulated according to the quantity and different kinds of tickets required at the station where the case is used. Having thus described the nature of our invention and the means of carrying the same into operation we wish to observe that we do not limit ourselves to the details llerein set forth as the same may be varied,

What we do claim is* The case shown in Figs. 1 and 2, for holding railway or other tickets.

JOSEPH EDMONDSON, OALEB HAWORTH, Eweontors of the estate of Thomas Edmondson, deceased. Witnesses:

H. B. BARLow, JOHN PERKINS, 

